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Before his early death in 1609, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted no fewer than three St. Jeromes. The most renowned version is in Rome's Villa Borghese, but the best-done from the same model-may well be Montserrat's. The Montserrat canvas shows the saint in repose, with only a skull for company, in peaceful contemplation. It has all the power of Caravaggio's drawing, which influenced Rubens. It is a striking example of Caravaggio's favorite color combination-red and black-which has influenced painters from Georges de La Tour to the abstract-expressionist...
...meter run is a slow, not very popular race, a dogged, grinding test of endurance that usually sends the track fans ambling out for hot dogs. But not last week, when the best U.S. team ever assembled met the best from Soviet Russia at Philadelphia's Franklin Field. Far ahead was Russia's tireless Alexei Desyatchikov. Yet the eyes were not on him. All heads turned toward the other three men-two Americans and a Russian-struggling against time and tortured bodies to win honor and points for their countries-three for second place, two for third...
...jump, Indiana's Greg Bell confessed that he was not in tiptop condition: "I'll have to do it on the first jump." That he did. Hitting the mark at a sprinter's clip. Bell jackknifed forward and landed at 26 ft. 7 in., equaling his best distance-a jump that stands second only to Jesse Owens' 1935 record of 26 ft. 8¼ in. The pressure on Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan was so intense that he fouled repeatedly, had to settle for 25 ft. 9¼ in. and second place...
...grueling was the grind that only 65 of the 120 starters, Europe's best bicycle racers, were able to finish, and at the end of 24 days and 2,680 miles of plain and mountain, the victory in the 46th annual Tour de France went to an iron-legged, 137-lb. Spaniard named Federico Baha-montes, 31, who had never before won a major international bike race...
Nature of the Beast. Research must find answers to three complex questions: 1) What is cancer and what are its causes? 2) How can it best be detected, treated and cured? 3) How can it be prevented...